Good habits by consumers can stymie scams, but US regulations have fallen behind the technology.

While the 1947 Roswell Incident ignited a global UFO craze, few know of the top-secret military project that started it all.

Australian Skeptics Inc. $4000 Prize for Critical Thinking in the Media

We’re missing an emotional architecture for change: how it feels to want a different future and believe we can reach it, writes Solitaire Townsend.

Polygraphs are ‘pseudo-scientific’ in that they measure physiological responses such as heart rate, blood pressure and perspiration

Investigations, talks and TV appearance by the Australian Skeptics.

The Trump administration is eliminating limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Environmental groups say this will impact the climate and public health.

By Ned Watt and Michelle Riedlinger FOR society and democracy to function we used to depend on shared facts and a system of informed discussion and decision making. People are angry because they belie...

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A 25-year-old hiker says she snapped an “inhuman” Bigfoot-like figure wading through a murky pond - but online critics insist the viral “Syracuse Figure” is more likely an overweight elderly man skinn...

In recent years, there has been a huge uptake in meditation, promoted to improve mental and physical health. But it can be harmful for some people.

In 2025, a cleverly designed study claimed to find evidence of strange objects orbiting Earth — all before the Space Age.

Misinformation and conspiracy theories emerging after major natural disasters are nothing new. But their scale and virality following Nepal’s catastrophic glacial flood has been profoundly unsettling.

It should be hard to believe. The fact that conspiracy theorists have wheeled out a range of absurd claims purporting to reveal, or guess at, the cause of Dolly Parton’s death. But it’s…

The health and human services secretary is one of the most prominent vaccine skeptics in the country.

You might be surprised by how many researchers who went on to make important contributions considered whether animals could have telepathy.

New recommendations have been provided to counter vaccine misinformation, after a flawed analysis gained publicity this year around

The American Academy of Pediatrics calls the recommendation on measles, mumps and rubella shots "dangerous".